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Sermon by Nicole Grant Yonkman @ Beneficent Church on 13 April 2014.
Sermon by Jametta Alston at Beneficent Church on 20 Oct. 2013.
Sermon by Shai Pina at Beneficent Church on June 10, 2013
Sermon by Todd Grant Yonkman at Beneficent Church on 21 April 2013. Topics: stewardship of creation, stewardship of community, Boston Marathon bombing.
sacred conversation on leadershipSermon by Nicole Grant Yonkman and April Lau at Beneficent Church on March 3, 2013.
Sermon by Nicole Grant Yonkman at Beneficent Church on February 3, 2013. Text: 1 Corinthians 13.
Sermon by Todd Grant Yonkman at Beneficent Church on 23 September 2012. Text: John 17:20-24. How does information get passed from one generation to the next in the context of a faith community?
prepare the waySermon by Todd Grant Yonkman at Beneficent Church on December 4, 2011.
PROVIDENCE — Some once owned homes. Some were proud parents. Still others were good friends — kind, funny, warm-hearted.
Providence Journal photo of Beneficent Church Homeless Memorial
But hard luck, illness, drug use or drinking problems plagued the 48 men and women remembered at Beneficent Congregational Church Wednesday. At some point, they all became homeless.
As a soft snow began to fall, more than 100 people mourned the homeless who died last year, while volunteers and friends — some of them homeless, too — called out their names and lit candles at the Weybosset Street church
Follow this link to read more of an article in the Providence Journal by Paul Davis on Beneficent Church’s annual memorial service for those who died while homeless in Rhode Island.
